Dr. Nasreen Chopra

Nasreen Chopra is Vice President of Sustainability Systems for the Semiconductor Products Group at Applied Materials, Inc., where she is focused on sustainability programs for customer value creation.

With over 20 years of industry experience, she brings strong technical knowledge, business and program management skills to the organization.

She started her career at Applied as a new college graduate as a process engineer and worked on the CVD low k (BD) film before leaving to found her own company, Koila, a venture backed technology start-up developing process and equipment for commercializing carbon nanotube growth.

She also worked within the solar industry in technology leadership roles at Agilent, SunPower and Alta Devices, and spent six years at Apple leading equipment procurement and technical program management for multiple major product lines before rejoining Applied in 2020.

Nasreen earned her BS, MS and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Presentation Title

The Sustainability Inflection

Abstract

As climate change becomes widely accepted as the challenge of our time many semiconductor manufacturers have made corporate commitments to reduce emissions and in the long term achieve net zero emissions.  This target is made even more difficult with estimates that anticipate a quadrupling of emissions due to increased manufacturing complexity and demand for semiconductors.  Therefore, it is imperative that we build a net-zero semiconductor ecosystem across the supply chain and use a quantitative, systems approach to generating solutions that reduce energy and direct emissions of semiconductor fabs. 

As India embarks on its journey to establish semiconductor manufacturing in the country, there is an opportunity to leverage the advancements in sustainability solutions that Applied Materials has developed and build them into the equipment used in semiconductor fabs to lower the fab energy requirements and GHG emissions right from the outset.